MIT AI Risk Repository
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3 risk entries extracted from 74 frameworks, coded by domain, subdomain, causal entity, intent and timing. Filter, then export the current selection with its licence and citation attached.
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16.01.01 · Risk Sub-Category
Risk area 1: Discrimination, Hate speech and Exclusion
Social stereotypes and unfair discrimination
"The reproduction of harmful stereotypes is well-documented in models that represent natural language [32]. Large-scale LMs are trained on text sources, such as digitised books and text on the internet. As a result, the LMs learn demeaning language and stereotypes about groups who are frequently marginalised."
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16.01.03 · Risk Sub-Category
Risk area 1: Discrimination, Hate speech and Exclusion
Exclusionary norms
"In language, humans express social categories and norms, which exclude groups who live outside of them [58]. LMs that faithfully encode patterns present in language necessarily encode such norms."
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16.05.01 · Risk Sub-Category
Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms
Promoting harmful stereotypes by implying gender or ethnic identity
"CAs can perpetuate harmful stereotypes by using particular identity markers in language (e.g. referring to “self” as “female”), or by more general design features (e.g. by giving the product a gendered name such as Alexa). The risk of representational harm in these cases is that the role of “assistant” is presented as inherently linked to the female gender [19, 36]. Gender or ethnicity identity markers may be implied by CA vocabulary, knowledge or vernacular [124]; product description, e.g. in one case where users could choose as virtual assistant Jake - White, Darnell - Black, Antonio - Hisp
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Where do these risk entries come from?
The MIT AI Risk Repository, which extracts risks from dozens of published frameworks, taxonomies and papers and codes each one by domain and subdomain, and by a causal taxonomy of entity, intent and timing. This is a browseable copy, attributed and openly licensed, not original research.
What do entity, intent and timing mean?
They are the causal coding. Entity is whether a human or the AI system is the cause; intent is whether the harm was intentional or not; timing is whether it arises before or after deployment. Together they let you separate misuse from malfunction.
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A living database of AI risks extracted from published frameworks, taxonomies and papers, classified by a causal taxonomy of entity, intent and timing and by a domain taxonomy of seven domains and 24 subdomains. It is published by the MIT AI Risk Initiative under CC BY 4.0.